Roxy Music
birth name: Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Brian Eno
Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described non-musician - over the course of his long, prolific, and immensely influential career, Brian Eno was all of these things and much, much more. ~ Allmusic: Brian Eno ~ retrieved February 18, 2014 © Allmusic
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May 15, 1993 ~ Billboard Hot 100 ~ #3 (4) Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight, Love Is ~ #2 (1) Silk, Freak Me ~ #1 (2) Janet Jackson, That's The Way Love Goes
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His skill at using “The Studio as a Compositional Tool” (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. His methods were recognised at the time (mid-1970s) as unique, so much so that on Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, he is credited with 'Enossification'; on Robert Wyatt's Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard with a Direct inject anti-jazz raygun and on John Cale's Island albums as simply being “Eno.” ~ Wikipedia: Brian Eno ~ retrieved January 22, 2016 © Wikipedia
Brian Eno ~ Here Come The Warm Jets (1974) ~ Ranked #49 Observer Music Monthly 100 Greatest British Albums in 2004.
As a Producer or co-producer
U2 ~ Achtung Baby (1991) ~ Named one of the Time 100 All-TIME Greatest Albums in 2010 ~ Less a revolution than a reformation; the grand guitar hooks are still there, but they’re buried under polyrhythms and effects borrowed from electronic music. ~ 2010 © TIME
As a Writer or co-writer
David Bowie ~ Heroes (Bowie/Eno) ~ Ranked #15 NME 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time in 2014 ~ The quintessential Bowie-in-Berlin track, Heroes moved with the unyielding and inexorable force of a tectonic plate, ceaselessly propelled by a musical backing that’s not so much a wall of sound as a four-chord cliff-face of it. ~ 2014 © NME
Roxy Music
a member from 1971 through 1973
Roxy Music defined the tone of 1970s art rock by coupling Bryan Ferry's elegant, wistful romantic irony with initially anarchic and later subdued, lush rock. The band was never as popular in America as it was in Europe, perhaps because its detachment and understatement baffled American tastes. ~ Rolling Stone: Roxy Music ~ retrieved May 12, 2014 © Rolling Stone
Roxy Music ~ Avalon (1982) ~ #442 #DLW500 Dylan's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time in 2012.
In 2004 three Roxy Music albums made it to the Observer Music Monthly 100 Greatest British Albums ~ #29 Stranded (1973) ~ #26 Roxy Music (1972) ~ #23 For Your Pleasure (1973)